just trying to work out how good the cooler is so i ran occt/furmark for about 10mins 1080p test and once i hit 63c on aabout min 3-4 it stops and starts jumping between 62c and 63c is this good/bad could anyone share there temps

not 100% sure a which points the fan was gaining speed but the highest i saw it was about 60% which seemed odd as usually anything over 55% i can hear but i couldnt hear it at all which is another plus..

Those are good temps for Furmark. Remember, furmark puts a very un-natural load on the GPU. No game will make it come close to what furmark gets it to. You have plenty of room to overclock. You can get up to 100c before you start frying things.

Edit: Download MSI afterburner and set a custom fan curve to your liking. Afterburner will also let you overclock your GPU and VRAM as well. Don't tweak voltate or anything. Just see what your card can do with stock volts. After overclocking run Furmark or GPUtool (google & download it) to see if you get any driver crashes or artifacts.Edited by Jayjr1105 - 2/28/12 at 7:45am

My 6950 didn't went above 60c in Furmark/OCCT (on stock gpu settings, with auto-fan mode), to me it seemed like those "stress tools" just didn't stress the card enough, but TBH games stress the graphics card the best. Those temps you have there aren't high though for a stress tool, the temps are good! Stress tools aren't always the best things to test graphics card stability, some of the tools aren't reliable enough.

If you keep the fan on auto and gpu settings on stock everything should be alright!Edited by battleaxe231 - 2/28/12 at 10:03am